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From the outset, Intelligence: A Brief History presents its readers with a problem: what is this book really about? Judging from the title, the unwary reader would presume that Cianciolo and Sternberg have set out to provide a quick overview of the historical development of the concept of intelligence, the practices that have been invented to measure it, and the uses to which it has been put. Indeed, this is precisely what they claim to have accomplished at the beginning of their conclusion (p. 135). However, as a contribution to history, the book is an abject failure. Events and developments that occurred before the 1960s or even 1970s are scarcely mentioned, and when they are, the exact details are often inaccurate. The authors provide no attention to historical context, to the specific intellectual traditions associated with the various articulations of the notion of intelligence they describe, or to the effects of the sociological/cultural locations of these developments in shaping the concepts and practices adopted. Indeed, a quick check of the bibliography reveals that of the approximately 291 works cited, only about 35 (12 percent) were published before 1960. Moreover, altho

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Author

Graham Richards

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0022-5061)

Published

2007

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)